Upcoming Events

Creative Writing Workshop with Didyer Mannette: The Art of Storytelling and the West Indian Tale

Thursday, November 14th, 4:30-5:30 PM

Join us for this unique opportunity to use your French language skills! In this interactive writing workshop, writer and publisher Didyer Mannette will present Antillean folktales (le conte antillais) from his home island of Guadeloupe, which will serve as the frame for a creative writing workshop for student-generated stories. A fun and imaginative way to explore creative expression in French, this workshop is open to all students in French 2101 or higher!

Dydier Mannette is a poet from Morne à l’eau in Guadeloupe and the director of the Guadeloupean publishing house Neg Mawon. He has facilitated literary competitions and many other cultural events around poetry, arts, and theatre in both French and Creole.  

Reflections on the Paris Olympic Games: Perspectives from France and LSU Olympians

November 21, 2024 at 5:30 p.m.
Bo Campbell Auditorium in the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student Athletes Building, LSU Campus
Reception immediately following at the Huey P. Long Field House (directly next door)

Join the School of Kinesiology to hear from their esteemed colleague Professor Guillaume Bodet, France’s leading scholar in sport management representing our new partner university, University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1. After his remarks on the significance of the Olympic Games to France, there will be a panel to hear from LSU Olympians with Aleah Finnegan (The Philippines, gymnastics), Maggie Mac Neil (Canada, swimming) and Vernon Norwood (USA, track).

The event is free and open to the public and all who love sports. Click the link to register for the event. This event is co-sponsored by the CFFS. 

SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 - A Lecture with Fatima Shaik 

Fatima Shaik is the author of Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free, Black Brotherhood (The Historic New Orleans Collection, February 2021).  She was born in the historic Seventh Ward of New Orleans and bred on the oral histories of Black Creoles told by her family and neighbors.  Only after she read the records of the Economie—3,000 pages of handwritten French stored in her family’s home—did she  realize this community’s impact. She spent two decades reading the journals and documenting events with real estate records, legal cases, old monographs, and articles. A full-time journalist for more than a decade, Shaik founded the Communication Department at Saint Peter's University and taught as tenured faculty for 25 years. Her freelance articles appeared in Essence, Nikkei Architecture, L'Expansion, The New York Times, In These Times, and The Root. Shaik is a trustee of PEN America and former board member of The Writers Room in NYC. Economy Hall is her first work of nonfiction and her seventh book

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Call for LSU CFFS Micro-Grant Proposals

The CFFS Micro-Grant initiative invites members of the LSU community to convene small-scale intellectual or creative exchanges that illuminate the broad applicability of intellectual and artistic contributions from the French and Francophone world, broadly construed. All members of the LSU community – undergraduates, graduate students, staff, and faculty – are invited to apply, although preference will be given to student and non-TT/early career faculty proposals. Successful proposals will be eligible to receive organizational support from the CFFS in the form of publicity and help securing on-campus spaces, as well as material support for honoraria and refreshments (up to $500). Whenever possible, Micro-Grant activities will be recorded and archived on the CFFS website for future reference. These grants will be administered on a rolling basis.

Learn more about micro-grant proposals and apply.